by Idette Elizondo, Manager & Amanda Brown, Senior Associate
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Hospitals and health systems have not historically focused on post-acute care. However, several factors are now motivating them to develop or strengthen their ties with post-acute care providers and establish an explicit post-acute care strategy. Acute care providers need to develop strong collaborative relationships with post-acute providers to ensure access to the post-acute care capacity […]
by Michael Rovinsky, Director
hfm Blog
August 18, 2016
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Michael Rovinsky describes the various considerations that healthcare providers should keep in mind when evaluating the ROI of retail clinics.
by Katherine Cwiek, Manager & Laura Zacchigna, Senior Associate
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Proactive collaboration allows AMCs and community counterparts to benefit from each other’s strengths, creating value that wasn’t necessarily sought or derived from more traditional partnering approaches. In Part I of this blog post on partnerships between community hospitals/systems and academic/major teaching centers (“AMCs”) we: Explored changes in AMC rationale for pursuing partnerships and partner attributes […]
by Mark Dubow, Director
Texas Healthcare Trustees - Spring Bulletin
May 2016
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Proactive transformation is critical to your success. This applies across all portions of the health care continuum, yet it is not accomplished through a “one size fits all” formula. Instead, it entails each organization applying its optimal blend of three forms of innovation, and adopting a more comprehensive definition of and maximizing the value delivered to key constituents. Read the […]
by Katherine Cwiek, Manager & Laura Zacchigna, Senior Associate
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Industry transformation requires major adaptations from healthcare organizations – to increase scale, enhance scope, and achieve differentiation, among others. Partnerships can be a key vehicle to facilitate and pursue these adaptations. Partnerships between academic and community hospitals/health systems are a unique sub-set of healthcare provider partnerships. Academic providers aligning with their community counterparts is, of […]
by Mark Dubow, Director
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Your selection of post-acute care (“PAC”) partners can make or break your value-based payment programs and care management initiatives. Even where fee-for-service is still dominant, having the right post-acute care partners can improve economic performance by reducing length of stay and minimizing acute care readmissions. Most health systems and hospitals do not own PAC facilities, […]
by Craig Holm, Director
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The impact of the Affordable Care Act on clinical practice patterns has influenced the utilization of and need for most physician specialties. Completing a medical staff development plan will help a health system or hospital right size its medical staff in light of these impacts, and ultimately help determine community need for physicians. Yet too […]